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2022-04-23 Africa Subsaharan

Many Farmers Feared Killed As Suspected Herdsmen Attack Benue Community

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Posted by Fred 2022-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)

#1 I guess they haven't figured out that if they kill all the farmers there will be less to eat.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-04-23 09:44|| 2022-04-23 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Food there comes in UN boxes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-23 09:47|| 2022-04-23 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that's no reason why they cain't be friends.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-04-23 12:02|| 2022-04-23 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I suggest you read the The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith.

A summary of this event. I am a herdsman who feeds my family as I move my animals from waterhole to waterhole. Since the Europeans have left, the biggest tribe gives all the land to its people. They put up fences and surround the water supply…..just one story of many. Oligarchs rule!

Posted by Papa Cooky 2022-04-23 12:49|| 2022-04-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps farmers need Stingers and Claymores.

Posted by Slappy 2022-04-23 16:43|| 2022-04-23 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Lemme guess. Fulani?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-23 16:57|| 2022-04-23 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 yep

Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 17:34|| 2022-04-23 17:34|| Front Page Top

#8 This is news, but when it occurs in Zimbabwe/South Africa nary a peep?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-04-23 17:54|| 2022-04-23 17:54|| Front Page Top

#9 but when it occurs in Zimbabwe/South Africa nary a peep?

We aren’t keeping as close an eye on the southern end of Africa, DooDah Man. We see occasional reports of Al Qaeda down there, but there are so many other non-Muslim kinds of viciousness that they seem to keep one another busy in mostly other directions. We watched Zimbabwe here in the early years, but that situation is more in the nature of hamsters doing their vicious best to disembowel one another, unconnected to the outside world.

Are you seeing indications that the Muslim jihad is heating up down there?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-23 19:18|| 2022-04-23 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Mr. Kurtz, him crazy

Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 21:19|| 2022-04-23 21:19|| Front Page Top

#11 ^^ Heart of Darkness reference. Love it.

Posted by badanov 2022-04-23 21:39|| 2022-04-23 21:39|| Front Page Top

#12 ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2022-04-23 22:38|| 2022-04-23 22:38|| Front Page Top

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